Notwithstanding External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's fierce counter-attack in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday over the issue of 'Lalitgate', Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that they had put across their points well.

The campaign for the ouster of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was on Wednesday met with a strong counter-offensive when she launched a no-holds-barred attack on Congress accusing it of having taken money to help Ottavio Quattrochchi and Warren Anderson flee India even as the government rejected the demand for her resignation.

A fiery and combative External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj gave a point by point rebuttal to the Congress party over the issue of Lalit Modi issue. In the process she also took on Sonia and Rahul and turned the tables on the Congress party.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday embarked on a five-day state visit to Sweden and Belarus, the first ever by any Indian head of state, during which a number of key agreements are likely to be signed.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday avoided commenting on President Pranab Mukherjee's remark that the Bofors arms scandal was more of a 'media trial' and none of the charges have been proved in any Indian court.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed former Foreign Minister Madhav Singh Solanki's plea for quashing an FIR lodged against him as an offshoot of the infamous Bofors scam, saying what he did was a "grave matter".

BJP on Sunday hit out at Sonia Gandhi over claims that an alleged middlemen in the VVIP chopper scam had asked a contact in India to "target" the Congress chief and her advisors to clinch the deal, saying it was a repeat of the Bofors scam and the issue will be raised in parliament.